Configure your custom domain & SSO settings

A team portal (e.g., https://yourcompany.start.me) helps your staff to access to your team pages faster.

The benefits of a team portal:

• A more memorable and shorter URL.
• Sub-menu showing all team pages.
• Additional branding options (e.g., logo) for your team.
• Other layout options for your pages.
• Single Sign-On (SSO), so your team members can log in using their existing work account (Google, Microsoft Office 365, etc.).

Instructions:

1. Request a team domain
2. Manage Team Portal layout
3. Configure your authentication methods
4. Whitelist e-mail domain(s)
5. Single Sign-On
6. IP Whitelisting

1. Request a team domain [back to top]

Click the "Team portal & SSO" link in the menu to go to the Team portal section. Click the Request team domain button.

2. Manage Team Portal layout  [back to top]

Once you've set up your custom domain, you'll see some new options to your Team portal menu:

• Portal startpage: select the startpage you want your team to open with, every time they open your pages. You do this from a dropdown menu.
• Background image: Upload a background theme for your Sign-In and Sign-Up pages.
• Settings to toggle on or off:
  • Hide sign-up button
  • Hide sign-in button
  • Hide search bar
  • Hide pages bar
  • Hide cookie consent bar
  • Hide footer
  • Open all links in a new window

Changes may take several minutes to appear on your team portal.

3. Configure your authentication methods    [back to top]

With your team domain, you get to decide which login buttons your team members will see when logging in. Example: Does your business use the G(oogle) suite, and do you want your employees to login using their work account? Toggle on Google and keep the other toggles disabled.

Available (social) authentication methods:

• E-mail
• Facebook
• Google
• Microsoft
• Twitter
• Yahoo

4. Whitelist e-mail domain(s) [back to top]

You can allow anyone with an email address from a specific @domain to access your team portal on start.me. Users can sign-up on this page: https://{yourteamportal}.start.me/users/sign_up.

Example: if your business e-mail domain is @marketing.com, every user with a @marketing.com (e.g., mike@marketing.com, lisa@marketing.com) e-mail address will be able to access your team pages.

To whitelist an e-mail domain:

• Type the e-mail domain in the dialogue.
• Click the Plus to confirm.
• Click Save Settings to apply your changes.

Changes may take several minutes to implement.

5. Single Sign-On (SSO)     [back to top]

We support the following SSO authentication standards:

• OAuth
• SAML
• OpenID

Click here for more general information about SSO.

Send an email to support@start.me to request SSO for your team. 

6. IP Whitelisting     [back to top]

IP Whitelisting only allows access from a determined and controlled IP Address.

With this team feature, you can add a layer of security to your pages. You can also make it possible for your employees or team members to log in and access your shared pages without a username or password.

Send an email to support@start.me to request IP Whitelisting for your team.